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*'''''Mr. History''''', featuring the gang as high school students of a past time period.
*'''''Mr. History''''', featuring the gang as high school students of a past time period.
*'''''Mike Who''''', featuring close-ups of a sidelined high school basketball player who can drive the crowd wild with a single wave.


==Season 3==
==Season 3==

Revision as of 19:01, 28 April 2007

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Welcome Freshmen.

Welcome Freshmen was a television show that ran on Nickelodeon from 1991 to 1993. The show took place at Hawthorne High School with a group of high school students and a bumbling principal.

Welcome Freshmen was filmed at Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, Florida.

Seasons 1 and 2

The earlier episodes of the series consisted of comedy sketches that loosely followed a theme. Some of the comedy routines involved a tortoise teaching children about safety, a documentarian who talks about past generations of freshmen, the principal imagining himself as a stand-up comedian, and a student who, though his appearance was occasional, provided not only a good example of how not to behave, but also a good example of flatulence.

Each episode had two or three short skits about the gang's misadventures in high school.

Other recurring skits

  • Mr. Lippman, the Vice Principal doing the morning announcements (at the same time, imagining how he'd *really* like to say them).
  • A Merv-u-mentary, Merv's amateurish attempt at uncovering news and scandals at the high school.
  • Mr. History, featuring the gang as high school students of a past time period.
  • Mike Who, featuring close-ups of a sidelined high school basketball player who can drive the crowd wild with a single wave.

Season 3

In the later episodes, the sketch comedy format was abandoned and an episode would follow a plot in its entirety. In essence, Welcome Freshmen became more of a standard situation comedy.

In the third season, the gang became sophomores, except Walter who flunked and was held behind. Merv and Tara left, and new characters came in: Manny and Erin (incoming freshmen) and Grant, a junior who was Erin's brother and soon became Alex's boyfriend.

Cast